"Coincident with the significant wing deformation, the aircraft began an uncontrollable and erratic flight path roughly straight ahead in a rapid descent," the National Transportation Safety Board describes in its report. "The left outboard wing section separated from the aircraft during the first portion of the descent and the right outboard wing section separated later in the descent."

Even though this is obviously unfortunate for Google and everyone involved with the project, the best thing it can do is learn from what happened here. We reached out to the company and will update this story when we hear back.

Edgar began hitting newsrooms as a young kid in the ’90s, when his dad worked at a regional newspaper. Growing up, he had two passions: technology and football (soccer). When he wasn't on the pitch scoring hat tricks, he could be found near his SNES or around the house, taking things apart. Edgar's also deeply in love with tacos, sneakers and FIFA, in no particular order. He lives in New York City with his better half.